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Large Hadron Collider Higgs Result

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Peter Ware Higgs4 July 2012

Geneva · Science / Physics

Witnesses CERN announce a new particle consistent with the boson predicted by the symmetry-breaking mechanism associated with his work.

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Peter Ware Higgs

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